Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography

by Susan Bright

Book Overview

Auto Focus features a dazzling array of self-portraits by seventy-five of the world's foremost contemporary photographers. Photography writer and curator Susan Bright provides a clear guide through this significant and dynamic genre, showing how issues of identity--whether national, sexual, racial, personal, or artistic--are key to understanding the work of many of today's leading photographers. This lavishly illustrated, accessible survey is organized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580933009
• ISBN13: 9781580933001
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 11.1"